Gender Through the Prism of Difference

Paperback | July 29, 2015

Gender Through the Prism of Difference adopts a global, transnational perspective on how race, class, and sexual diversity are central to the study of sex and gender. In contrast with other books in this area - which tend to focus on U.S. or European viewpoints - this wide-ranging anthologyfeatures many articles based on research done elsewhere throughout the world. Now in its fifth edition, the book opens with a revised and updated Introduction that sets the stage for understanding gender as a socially constructed experience. Featuring twenty-eight new readings, this edition coverscompelling subjects like transgendered people, intersex issues, men and masculinity, sexual and gender violence, disabilities, obesity, reproductive technologies, educational testing, aging and ageism, and Occupy Wall Street.

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Gender Through the Prism of Difference adopts a global, transnational perspective on how race, class, and sexual diversity are central to the study of sex and gender. In contrast with other books in this area - which tend to focus on U.S. or European viewpoints - this wide-ranging anthologyfeatures many articles based on research done ...

Maxine Baca Zinn is Professor Emerita of Sociology at Michigan State University.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo is Professor and Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration at the University of Southern California. Michael A. Messner is Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at the University of Southern Cal...